Tagged: research

August 3, 2024 @ 5:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Florida is the top state for mobile banking, a new study from software company Vention finds. The study utilized Google Keyword Planner to analyze the nationwide Google search volume behind various keywords related to mobile banking—including “mobile banking,” “mobile banking app,” and “best mobile banking… Read More

August 3, 2024 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook has released their latest Enterpise Fintech ecosystem. PitchBook’s Fintech ecosystem reports notes that deal value and count in Q2 2024 was fairly steady. As stated in the repot, enterprise fintech companies have “secured $4.6 billion in VC funding across 315 deals.” PitchBook pointed out… Read More

August 1, 2024 @ 11:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland sees venture capital (VC) investment pick up in Q2’24 and saw 24 deals raising $237.5 million an increase of nearly two fifths (38 percent) compared to $172.5 million across 33 deals for the same period last year. VC investors showed increasing willingness “to make… Read More

July 31, 2024 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

First AI Pulse Survey shared by EY reveals that the number of senior leaders investing $10 million or more is set to nearly double, but many are failing to also invest in necessary infrastructure, jeopardizing AI’s impact. After more than a year of hype around… Read More

July 31, 2024 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Bank’s latest Business Barometer found that overall business confidence rose significantly in July to equal the highest level in confidence shown by businesses for eight years. Business confidence in the UK increased by 9 points “to 50% this month, reversing the drop in June… Read More

July 30, 2024 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consensys announced a research agreement with Smart Transaction Corp (STXN), enabling STXN to investigate ways to further enhance the composability and utility of Ethereum transaction semantics. The research, which is separate from but complementary to MetaMask’s Smart Transactions feature launched in May 2024, will “be… Read More

July 30, 2024 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

For the “first” time in United States history, crypto has become a significant campaign issue in a presidential election, according to Gemini‘s upcoming 2024 State of Crypto survey. The study shared by Gemini found that “more than one in five Americans currently own cryptocurrency (21%).”… Read More

July 30, 2024 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional investors and wealth managers are increasingly convinced the $100,000 Bitcoin landmark will be achieved with one in five expecting it will be hit within two years (the current price is $66,687), according to new global research by London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management, Europe’s digital… Read More

July 29, 2024 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CyberCube, the provider of cyber risk analytics to quantify cyber risk, estimates preliminary insured losses from the July 19 CrowdOut event for the standalone cyber insurance market at between $400mn and $1.5bn. The faulty CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor update and subsequent outage – the CrowdOut Event… Read More

July 29, 2024 @ 12:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A million-dollar price tag no longer means lavish and luxurious living. In more than 200 U.S. cities, buyers will find “a price tag of $1 million or more on the typical starter home,” a new Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) analysis finds. The Zillow real… Read More

July 28, 2024 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tracxn, a global SaaS-based market intelligence platform, has released its Geo Semi-Annual Report: UK FinTech H1 2024. The report, based on Tracxn’s extensive database, “provides insights into the United Kingdom (UK) FinTech space.” The UK FinTech ecosystem was “the second highest globally in terms of… Read More

July 27, 2024 @ 1:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jumio, the provider of automated, AI-driven identity verification, risk signals and compliance solutions, released new findings from its Jumio 2024 Online Identity Study, revealing growing concern among Americans on the political influence AI and deepfakes may have during upcoming elections and how they might influence… Read More

July 26, 2024 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a global digital payments provider, announces the results of its commissioned 2024 Total Economic Impact (TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The independent study outlines a three-year, risk-adjusted present value and ROI for a composite organization “comprised of interviewees with significant experience working with… Read More

July 26, 2024 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has released the State of startup compensation, H1 2024 update. Carta data shows that companies have “become leaner and salary benchmarks have remained flat across much of the ecosystem.” Companies on Carta made “more than 60,000 new hires during the first four months of… Read More

July 25, 2024 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global small business platform, Xero, released its quarterly Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) report for Canada, based on data from January to March 2024. The update showed incremental “improvements for the sector across sales growth, late payments and time-to-paid metrics, a signal that Canada‘s small… Read More

July 25, 2024 @ 6:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On 18th July 2024, a large number of Windows users found themselves caught in what’s being called the “largest IT outage in history.”  Crowdstrike (NASDAQ:CRWD), an IT cyber protection firm, stumbled in an update that caused a global outage. Shares in the firm have dropped… Read More

July 24, 2024 @ 4:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Three in five people believe that the U.S. is currently in a recession, even though we’re not in one officially, according to new research from Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth. The survey of 2,000 Americans explored… Read More

July 24, 2024 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK is a significantly more entrepreneurial society than it was at the start of the millennium, the world’s largest survey of entrepreneurship has found. This, according to an update from NatWest. For the first time since the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor records began “a quarter… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Birchal, the leading investment crowdfunding platform (crowd-sourced funding) in Australia has published its half year report reviewing industry activity. According to the platform, investment crowdfunding is displaying “sustained stability” and growth in platform activity. Birchal shares in its Crowd-Sourced Funding (CSF) FY24 Industry Report ‘Funded’… Read More

July 22, 2024 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Matías Andrade and Tanay Ved have recently shared key takeaways from a Coin Metrics report which noted that Mt. Gox creditors are finally receiving repayments, “with approximately $9 billion worth of Bitcoin set for distribution in July.” As mentioned in the Coin Metrics report, the… Read More